The week’s top media stories
Every week, AUSVEG rounds up the top stories on issues affecting the Australian vegetable industry. Here are this week’s most important news items:
- Farmers are paying in excess of $3000 per worker to quarantine before they even hit the paddocks (Townsville Bulletin)
- Anger, frustration over labour shortage claims (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Farmers still short of workers (2GB)
- NSW government needs a plan for ag’s labour shortage (The Land)
- NSW Farmers launches labour shortage survey (The Land)
- Aussie shoppers confused by fake meat labels, survey’s emphatic result (Good Fruit & Vegetables)
- Sub-tropical horticulture research blooms (Farm Weekly)
- Australia could be short 24,000 farm workers (Bundaberg Today)
- ‘No way’ 12,500 Pacific worker target will be hit (Bundaberg Today)
- Seasonal workers: Calls to extend Victorian program ahead of summer harvest shortage (Weekly Times Now) – subscription required
- Grey nomads have pick of the jobs (The Australian) – subscription required
- The chips are down: SA potato farmers warn of dumping from EU (Sydney Sun)
- WA launches horticulture business scheme (TradeFarmMachinery.com.au)